framerate in Vice City is sometimes choppy.

Try updating your video/audio drivers, and gta3vc updates as well. I'm not 100% sure about needing the cd, but you can always get a no-cd crack... I'm pretty sure that you do not need the cd for the radio. With that being said, I do not think that it is the radio which is causing problems. The best way to prove that theory is to either leave the CD out, or just watch the LED during lag-time to see if the CD is spinning up while you lag.

Your processor might be holding you back a bit, especially if thats a 1.6Ghz P4. Apart from that I would try the No-CD Crack and see if it is being caused by excessive Cd reads.

<A HREF="http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=7454540" target="_new">Yay, I Finally broke the 12k barrier!!</A>

replace the original game .exe file with no-cd patch .exe file

------------
<A HREF="http://geocities.com/spitfire_x86" target="_new">My Website</A>

<A HREF="http://geocities.com/spitfire_x86/myrig.html" target="_new">My Rig</A> & <A HREF="http://geocities.com/spitfire_x86/benchmark.html" target="_new">3DMark score</A>

I can't find a cheat to get more money in vice city. I'm tired of going back and forth all the time. Can someone give me a cheat to get more money. I want to enter a password that makes my money increase.

What happens when all the hidden packages are found?
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Zemuron on 03/14/04 05:58 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

GTAIII or VC run poorly on most pcs, simply because they're direct ports from the ps2, and it might only be a 300mhz proccessor, but if a game is unoptimised for pc, you're basically running an emulator - and we all know that even SNES emulators take a lot of proccessing power.

Your cpu is holding your pc back, as is your ram. But as said above setting frame limiter helps a lot, as does switching off trails.

XP2000, 512 ddr 2700ram, GF4 MX440, XP Pro

yes, friend it is the radio!! I have the same problem. I've tried literlly every CD-crack, fixed Exe out there and the game still requires the cd in the drive to even start. Then there are times in the game, usually within first 5 minutes that my CD rom spins up and the game will LITERALLY freeze. Sometimes up to 10 freakin seconds!! Not choppy, not sluggish...but a complete freeze! My CD-rom blows so I know it is this that is causing it. My beefy system (P4 3.0@3.5, 1GB PC4000 DDR, Hercules 9800XT, Audigy 2, 160GB SATA 150) has no problems running other games at all. It is the cd-rom, bro. Try getting some software that will emulate your cd-rom. this should help.